Enacting Englishness in the Victorian period : colonialism and the politics of performance / Angelia Poon.

Contents English homebodies : the politics of spectacle and domesticity in mid-century Victorian conduct literature and Jane Eyre -- Comic acts of (be)longing : performing Englishness in wonderful adventures of Mrs. Seacole in many lands -- Seeing double : performing English identity and imperial duty in Emily Eden's Up the country and Harriet Martineau's British rule in India -- Charles Dickens and the policing of the English body -- Imperial fantasies and the politics of reproducing Englishness : Henry Rider Haggard's Allan Quatermain.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [157]-169) and index.
LCCN 2007038170
ISBN9780754658481 (alk. paper)
ISBN0754658481 (alk. paper)

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